GIZ-support to developing countries on international and domestic MRV requirements Training Evaluation and MRV of Energy Savings and Efficiency Programmes and Measures and related GHG emission reductions NEMO Science Center, Amsterdam, 6 June 2016 Klaus Wenzel, GIZ Page 1
GIZ: We manage change. To make development sustainable worldwide Advisory and practical services across a wide range of sectors Operations in Germany & in over 130 countries around the world Business volume: over EUR 2.03 billion in 2014 Main commissioning party: the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Commissioned by well over 300 public and private-sector bodies in Germany and abroad 16,410 employees worldwide, over 3,000 staff in Germany and 11,260 national personnel About 30% of project portfolio climate-related Page 2
GIZ projects worldwide working on MRV - 29 global, regional and bilateral projects in 18 countries - Georgia Dominican Republic Tunisia Turkey China Mexico Costa Rica Colombia Morocco Ghana Central African Republic India Thailand Vietnam The Philippines Indonesia Chile South Africa Page 3
GIZ-support project for the International Partnership on Mitigation & MRV Partnership launched by South Africa, South Korea and Germany at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in 2010. Support project: 01/12-09/16, proposal for extension until 2020 in framework of NDC-cluster submitted > 90 countries (developing and developed) network to advance negotiations on mitigation & MRV and to support the design, set-up and effective implementation of NDCs, LEDS, NAMAs and MRV-systems The Partnership facilitates the exchange of good practice between climate negotiators, policymakers and practitioners (P2P), website builds trust and informs UNFCCC negotiations through Partnership Meetings and Annual Partnership Retreats develops capacities on demand within regional groups cooperates widely, e.g. with UNDP, UNFCCC, PMR, FAO, 10.06.2016 Page 4
Information Matters Financed by BMUB since 05/13 for supporting sustainable BUR/NC development (including GHG-inventories) for Chile, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Philippines (Phase I) Second phase ongoing for Colombia, Egypt, Georgia, Vietnam (plus adhoc facility) until 11/17 (Phase II) Phase III for SIDS and LDC in preparation (project concept submitted) Activities: Permanent in-country support by a GIZ national staff, stocktaking, technical workshops in-country, backstopping Focus on P2P exchange among project countries and in the framework of the Mitigation- and MRV-Partnership Development of knowledge products, e.g. stock-taking tool, BUR template, BUR process guidance, 10.06.2016 Page 5
Klaus Wenzel Klaus.wenzel@giz.de For more information please visit Partnership homepage: http://mitigationpartnership.net/ http://mitigationpartnership.net/information-matters Klaus Wenzel - GIZ Page 6
Regional & global MRV/Transparency Programs/Initiatives - mitigation only - (1) Paris Committee on Capacity-building and Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) (2) UNDP-LECB - Low Emission Capacity Building Programme & follow-up Support to Dev. Countries on INDC & CC (EC, Germany, Australia) (3) UNDP-GSP - Global Support Programme (GEF) (4) International Partnership on Mitigation & MRV (& BMUB-NDC-Cluster) (5) Information Matters (BMUB, GIZ) (6) NDC-Partnership (forthcoming, Germany) (7) PMR - Partnership for Market Readiness (8) UNEP Umbrella Programme for BUR to the UNFCCC (GEF) (9) MAPT Measurement and Performance Tracking Project (10) ClimaSouth and ClimaEast (European Commission - EC) (11) Capacity Building on MRV of GHG emission & action for dev. countries (EC) (12) ICAT - Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (DE, ITA, CWF, CIFF) (13) Coalition on Paris Agreement Capacity Building (14) Accounting rules for achievement mitigation goals of NAI (MX,CR,CO) Klaus Wenzel - GIZ Page 7
Barriers and Challenges Lack of political buy-in: Climate change is not a national priority; MRV-system perceived as additional burden, no funds available for personnel, recruitment stop in ministries Ad-hoc/informal institutional arrangements of the national MRVsystems. Lack of clear roles and responsibilities for the designated entities for the MRV-systems Limited access to data: informal arrangements for data collection with sector ministries and private sector, ad hoc collection of data Institutional memory: MRV-system often dependent on individuals and/or donor-project-funded external consultants. No knowledge transfer (fly-in-fly-out capacity building = memory loss) Lack of technical expertise and/or equipment Willingness to do all at once without clear priorities or too ambitious Klaus Wenzel - Lesson learnt GIZ MRV-projects Page 8